Service providers, enterprises and global organizations today need web-scale architecture to enable the flexibility critical to the future of storage and the rise of the Internet of Things. Compuverde today announced that its scale-out NAS storage solution is now available as a free download. This limited-capacity offer enables organizations to try out the software-defined and horizontally aligned storage platform risk-free and at no cost. For more information, visit /try-buy/product-download/.

Free download: Free scale-out NAS features include up to 20 TB and four nodes, along with NFS and CIFS protocols. Users can purchase a license to access Snapshot, Join AD, OpenStack/Amazon protocols and multi-tenancy support features.

User-friendly storage: Compuverde's vNAS and hyperconverged products are market-leading in performance and simplicity. As the easiest to install and most user-friendly tools on the market, Compuverde is also more cost-effective than other options.

Scalability and performance: With a single file system that spans all servers, Compuverde offers vNAS environments that scale to exabytes of data, with linear scaling that adds more nodes to a cluster while simultaneously boosting the capacity of each node, enabling customers to realize substantial gains in ROI and performance.

Reduced cost and hassle: The Compuverde model offers the ability to rapidly add thousands and thousands of virtual machines to the same cluster, eliminating the cost and hassle of building a new cluster to accommodate data growth. The hyper-converged storage runs as a virtual machine with VMware, Hyper-V and KVM.

Stefan Bernbo, CEO and founder, Compuverde, said: "To scale quickly, organizations must automate as much of the business as possible. They need a storage solution that enables them to start small and expand as their business grows. The free download lets storage professionals see how easy it is to install, manage and expand our platform."